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(NoModeL) A. ORON. Oar Coupling No. 233,330. Patented Oct. 19,1880.-

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Inventor:

H. PETERS, PHOTO-EJYI IOGRAFNER WASHINGTON, n C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

AROHIBALD ORON, OF BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,330, dated October 19, 1880.

' Application filed August 30, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARoHIBALD' ORoN, of the city of Brantford, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Automatic Gar-Ooupler, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to make an automatic car-coupler in which the ordinary link and coupling-pin may be used; and it consists in a number of levers and pivoted bars so arranged that they can be set to support the coupling-pin without going between the cars, and caused to release the same by the link entering the draw-head in the manner hereinafter more particularly described.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a drawhead provided with my improved automatic coupling mechanism. Fig. 2 is a plan.

A is the draw-head, of any suitable design and material. B is the coupling-pin. O is a plate pivoted at a to the draw-head, and shaped as shown, for the purpose of supporting the pin B, as hereinafter explained.

D is a vertical supporting rod or bar passing through a slot in the draw-head, and pivoted at one end to a bracket, E, attached to and projecting below the draw-head. One end of the horizontal bar F is pivoted on the same pin as the bar D, to which it is also attached. Its other end is pivoted to the link G, which connects it to the eccentric H, fastened, as shown, to the spindle I, and shaped to operate the bar (3. This spindle passes through the draw-head A, and may be extended to the outside of the car so as to be within reach of the brakeman, who is thereby enabled to operate the coupler without entering between the cars.

J is a crank-handle fastened to the spindle I.

In order to operate the coupler from the top of the car, a chain or rod may be attached to the handle J and carried to a convenient point. A slot in the plate 0 allows the rod D to pass through it. A bracket, K, on the plate 0, supports a pivoted wing, d, which,when the plate (J is raised, rests upon the end of the bar D, thereby supporting it.

In order to uncouple the handle J is drawn uponand the plate 0 is raised by the eccentric H. The bar D, being connected to the eccentric, as described, is at the same time thrown forward, and, catching under the wing 61, supports the plate G,which holds up the pin B and permits the link L to be withdrawn. By reversing the action described the cars are reconpled-that is to say, the link is set in one draw-head, and when forced into the other it strikes the bar D, pushing it back clear of the win g 07, when, of course, the plate 0 drops, and with it the pin B, thereby locking the link I, as desired.

What I claim as my invention isl. The combination, with the draw-head A, having the slot 1), and pivoted plate 0, carrying the coupling-pin B, and wing 61, of the bracket E, vertical supporting-rod D, hinged thereto, pivoted horizontal bar F, link G, eccentric H, and link L, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

2. The pivoted plate 0, carrying the pin B, and provided with a bracket, K, supporting the pivoted wing d, in combination with the vertical supporting-rod D, operated substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The vertical rod D, pivoted to the bracket E, and connected to the horizontal bar F, in combination with the link Gr, eccentric H, and spindle I, operated by the crank-handle J, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. The slotted plate 0, pivoted at a. to the draw-head A, and provided with a bracket, K, for carrying the pivoted wing d, in combination with the rod D, pivoted on the bracket 1* and connected to the link G by the bar F, the eccentric H, and spindle I, provided with a handle, J, the whole operating substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: ARCH. CRON.

PETER PURVES, JOHN D. MARTIN. 

